MESNALTY is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. MESNALTY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept MESNALTY?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful MESNALTY is to know. It scores 13 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for MESNALTY
No single letter turns MESNALTY into another word.
How MESNALTY scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in MESNALTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so MESNALTY has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about MESNALTY
- All 8 letters of MESNALTY are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does MESNALTY mean in Scrabble?
noun
legalhistorical
The estate or land held by a mesne lord, a feudal lord who stood between the king and the tenants below him.
In the old feudal chain a mesne lord held land from a superior and granted parts of it to others, and mesnalty names that middle holding. The word turns up in the history of English land law and almost nowhere else.
How MESNALTY is used
Mesnalty is a historical legal term found in works on medieval tenure.
- The dispute concerned whether the manor was a mesnalty or held directly of the crown.
- He inherited the mesnalty along with the duty to pay homage to a greater lord.
- Historians trace how the mesnalty vanished once the feudal system faded.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of MESNALTY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in MESNALTY
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Common questions about MESNALTY
- Is MESNALTY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts MESNALTY, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is MESNALTY worth?
- MESNALTY is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does MESNALTY mean?
- The estate or land held by a mesne lord, a feudal lord who stood between the king and the tenants below him.
- What letters can be added to MESNALTY?
- No single letter can be added to MESNALTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of MESNALTY:
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